Last spring, RMJ Distributing became the exclusive licensee, manufacturer, and distributor of the soda, and began packaging it in aluminum bottles. The Hot Dish recently sampled the new, locally made products and found them somewhat wanting.

Soda is a fairly simple beverage, with three main characteristics: flavor, sweetness, and fizz. Both the Killebrew root beer and cream soda hit the mark on the first two, but fell totally flat on the carbonation--it was almost nonexistent.

Was this an anomaly? Have you tried Killebrew soda? What were your impressions? (Find it here.)

Okay then maybe mine weren't an anomaly. Having recently opened a year-old bottle of H20 I unearthed from the back of the pantry and found its fizz had gone flat, I was allowing that it might have been a slow-moving inventory problem.